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John Bellany    (Scottish, 1942)

 John Bellany - Fishing Trawler at Sunset (Paintings) h: 30.5 x w: 40.6 cm / h: 12 x w: 16 in
John Bellany
Fishing Trawler at Sunset
 
  

Biography
1942 Born in Port Seton, Scotland
1960 - 1965 Edinburgh College of Art
1965 - 1968 Royal College of Art, London
1968 Lecturer in Painting, Brighton College of Art
1969 - 1973 Lecturer in Painting, Winchester College of Art
Visiting Lecturer at Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths' College of Art
1983 Artist in Residence, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
1978 - 1984 Lecturer in Painting, Goldsmiths' College of Art
1988 Elected Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1994 Awarded CBE by Her Majesty The Queen

Exhibitions
2004 Birds, Flowers Graphics, Flowers East, London
2003 Master Stock List, New York
2003 Modern Masters From Archives, Flowers Graphics
2003 Figure in Print, Flowers Graphics
2003 Flowers Central Summer Group Show
2002 Flowers West, Santa Monica
2001 12 British Painters, Flowers East, London
1997 British Figurative Art – Part I: Painting, Flowers East
1995 John Bellany - New Paintings, John Bellany - Print-Maker, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Realism, Kunstlersondebud of Deutscheland, Berlin
1994 Recent Paintings, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1993 Contemporary Trends in British Art, Hayward Gallery, London
John Moores Exhibition 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1992 A Long Night's Journey into Day - A 50th Birthday Tribute, Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove
New British Art, Denmark (British Council Exhibition)
1991 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1989 John Bellany-A Renaissance, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish Paintings since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Barbican Art Gallery, London
1988 - 1989 Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1987 Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, London
1986 Serpentine Gallery, London
1984 The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery, London
1977 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London
1974 British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London

Literature
1999 Scotland's Art, catalogue, Edinburgh City Art Centre
1997 Tamasin Doe, Portrait artists, The London Evening Standard 17 January
William Packer, Battery of beasts and symbols, Financial Times, 22 August
1994 John Slyce, John Bellany, 1994, Mainstream, London
Under the influence of genius, Alison Roberts, The Times, 21 March
1993 Contemporary Painting in Scotland, edited by Bill Hare, The Concise Catalogue of Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Scottish Painters, Sue Hubbard, Time Out, September
John Bellany, Art Review, October
1992 A Long Night's Journey into Day: The Art of John Bellany, catalogue
1986 John Bellany, catalogue, Scottish National Gallery
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